matthew winkler, our editor-in-chief emeritus, with an article on esg. look at it on the terminal as well. we will try to get it out on twitter through the morning. much more to talk about through the morning. us.a kirr will join that is where we are focused right now, with all the back and forth, with all the fiscal stimulus discussion, and of course the earnings coming on as well, and a quiet into summer markets, and the day to day noise of this pandemic. a good time to catch up with beata kirr of bernstein. futures at -10. dell futures at -79. the fixed backup .76 points. 25.50 on the vix. continued dollar weakness over the last three days. also a two cent spread, coming back from where it was yesterday. a little bit steeper. this is bloomberg. good morning. ♪ tom: this morning, they "clearly do not have shared values." the distance between republicans and democrats is far greater than a $2 trillion divide. speaking of distance, it is 294 feet to walk from a trump international hotel to the fbi headquarters. talk this morning on the multi-chilean doll

when the story was ready for publication, editor in chief matthew winkler crushed it saying, quote, it is for sure going to, you know, invite the communist party to, you know, completely shut us down and kick us out of the country. so i just don't want to see that as a story that's justified. in short, essentially all major american media outlets other than those of a more conservative or libertarian bent, are subject to powerful chinese influence. what they cover is what the c.c.p. wants them to cover. what they say is what the chinese communist party wants them to say. a recent example is telling. in a report looking at evening news broadcasts from january 17 through march 13, the media research center found that out of -- i'm sorry, 634 minutes of coronavirus coverage, just three minutes and 14 seconds were in any way critical of the chinese government's actions. and 20% of the stories, reporters cited chinese statistics. those statistics, regarded as fraudulent by most objective observers, went unchallenged 97% of the time. this relationship between the u.s. news media and the chin